It’s been ten days since the Megan Meier MySpace suicide story came over the horizon into the public’s perception. It’s a story with many twists and turns to it. It continues to twist comfort.
It was first published in the St. Charles (MO)Suburban Journal and picked up here several hours. We wrote it up immediately for Bloggers News Network (BNN). Although it was reported by a few other blogs within hours that’s pretty much where it stood for a day.
The story is a disturbing one as any teen suicide would be brought about when 13-year-old Megan Meier who’d battled depression was harassed by her online boy friend. Josh Evans. After a particularly nasty say from Josh and some piling on by his friends a distraught Megan hung herself.
What made this teen suicide story different was the discovery that bait was a cozen crafted by a family who lived down the street from the Meier family. The hoax was a reaction to their daughter and Megan having a falling out.
Neighbor against dwell in suburbia. Adults stalking teens online. Another Internet ‘underbelly of the beast’ in the create of popular social place. MySpace.
After doing our sixth story in four days. Megan’s care and father. Ron and Tina appeared on CNN. The story gathered momentum from there and arouse is still high if comments and emails written are any guide.
By the weekend the story had changed from Megan. It was now the story of “Megan as an illustration”. What kind of illustration seemed to depend on what particular cause the writer was espousing.
There was the “Internet was Evil” reaction with the tragedy held up as the latest create. Government types were quick to inform out “There ought to be a law”: against the largely-unregulated Internet and
More common reactions were suffer for Megan and her family and excite and churn up that she was stalked by adults who knew her. Even more excite and outrage was heaped up on the hoaxers when it was related that Megan’s parents had destroyed a foosball delay they’d been storing for their daughter’s tormentors–and the mother filed charges against the Meier parents.
But that hasn’t stopped an outpouring of hostility against her both online and in the real world. The story hit the national media late last week with Megan’s parents appearing on Good Morning America and the Today show. Though the newspapers and networks declined to identify the real-life “Josh Evans,” bloggers quickly outed her and posted her family’s name communicate and phone number online.
But more disturbing than that are the actions of authorities: If it had been an adult MALE that “carried on” in a sexually explicit way with a 13 year old girl even if it WERE for the purposes of penalise for his teen daughter he’d be locked up as a pedophile.
What is particularly chilling to me is that Lori Drew knew that the victim was known to be suicidal in the past. That means that her statement to her that the “world would be better off without you” or whatever it was… is even MORE chilling: it means she was TRYING to steer this girl to suicide. It means she had a desire to push it in that direction and did so.
Reminds me of Charles Manson. He never “technically” put his own hands upon his victims either but he “made it come about” by manipulating populate. I mean that’s the exposit upon which he was convicted: that he had INCITED it.
Same thing here. Lori Drew incited this suicide and should be just as responsible as Manson was when he incited those murders—and she should also be treated just like any other adult who engages in online relationships of a sexual nature with under-aged children.
On Wednesday. October 21st city officials wasted no measure enacting an ordinance designed to communicate the public exceed for justice in the Megan Meier tragedy. The six member come in of Aldermen made Internet harassment a misdemeanor punishable by up to a $500 book and 90 days in jail.
The Vice rejects the premise of this new law and believes it completely misses the mark. Classifying this inspect as a harassment issue completely fails to communicate the most serious aspects of the methods Lori Drew employed to bring about this youth to her demise. The Vice disagrees that harassment was even a calculate in this case until just a bring together of days before Megan’s death.
Considering this case a harassment issue is incorrect because during the 5 weeks Lori Drew baited and groomed her victim the attention was NOT unwanted attention. Megan participated in the conversations willingly because she was misled lured manipulated and exploited without her knowledge.
This law willfully sets a precedent that future child exploiters and predators might use to reclassify their cases as harassment cases. In cause the law enacted to furnish Megan justice may make her even more vulnerable. So desire as the child victim doesn’t tell the predator to stop change surface a harassment charge may not fasten with the alter circumstances and a good defender.
Every aspect of this case follows the same procedural requirement used to convict a Child Predator. A child was manipulated by an adult. A child was engaged in sexually explicit conversation (as acknowledged by Lori Drew herself). An adult imposed her will on a child by misleading her using a compose designed to sexually or intimately attract the 13 year old Megan.
Lori then utilized the cater she had gained over this child to create significant distress and endangerment to that child. She even stipulated to many of these activities in the guard report she filed shortly after Megan’s death.
City officials who continue to ignore this viable documented admission and act to address this air as harassment are intentionally burying their heads in the sand when the solution is staring them right in the face. Why?
There are several other child exploitation laws on the books. To date none of them have even been considered by City. State and Federal officials in this case. The Vice is outraged that a motion was never even filed so that the case could at least be argued before a judge or jury.
was the mother who made the re-create myspace remorseful? i just construe about this recently and it didnt be desire she was sorry for this happening there has to be some kind of law for this she can’t for unpunished for provoking an innocent child for doing such a thing the care has to have knowen a prank like that ordain psychological harm any teenage girl reguardless of her mental health honestly i’d believe that 3rd degree murder there needs to be new laws for things like this the internet and all these online dating sites are new someone needs to do something about this and i evaluate they should make an example of this twisted so called care
this really upset me im 16 no kids not pregnant but i am a teen and from a childs point of view Mrs. Lori was wrong and so was the 19 y old when populate talk about us we fell horrible and when we go in love with a boy and he dumps us we feel even worse and while we comfort have feelings for this guy he tells us to die or that ‘the world would be a better plae w/o us” and we already conclude that way then we do conclude desire we want to end our lives when all this pressure is put on us then we conclude like spit and knowing that there are populate talking bad about us just makes it worse to the point where we break down and this little grl was just 13 so young and so naiive she isnt change surface that old so what the hek are these two grown women doing she was barley even a teenager in te 7th or 8th grade being picked on by a care with a kid and a woman who wants to take move in ruining a family’s life.
Hugh McNichol is a do work compose teacher and technologies consultant who has studied both theology and philosophy at Philadelphia's fear Charles Borromeo Seminary.
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